5 ways we're already living in the future
Since before time, or at least like the 1900s, people have been wondering: What will science do to change the future? There's been predictions of The Jettsons' style maid robots, Back to the Future's hoverboards, Star Wars' laserguns... we, as a people, have been so caught up in the idea that these things represent the future that we completely missed some totally rad nerdy scientists (We're at the point where nerdy is cool, right?) got inspired and went out to actually make all these things. So, little by little, without even noticing... we're livin' in the future, baby!
5. There's like, drones out there
That shit's crazy, right? The BigDog is just one of many functional projects out there devoted to answering the question: How can robots make this better/cooler? I mean, factory machines have already been out for ages, and everyone knows about Google's driverless cars, but right now there are robots with very basic artificial intelligence designed to supplement or replace human roles. We (probably) aren't at the point yet where the person sitting next to you is secretly a Terminator style cyborg, but...
4. If you don't like drones there's mecha too
There's always going to be people who are all "Yeah man, fuck robots taking our jobs! They should be working for us amirite!?" To you, my hardworking friend, I present... A MUTHA TRUCKING ANIME ROBOT! For the low, low, super affordable price of only two million dollars, you can get in this quasi-street legal (Because nobody thought to outlaw it*) mecha that rolls around and launches rockets and Gatling guns at people. Pew pew explosions, right? The only downside is it comes factory installed with water bottle rockets and the Gatling Gun fires BBs. If only there was some way to make that more, you know, futuristic.
3. You can totes put lasers on that!
You may be like "Man that's photoshop, shizzit," but no dawg, that's the Mars Curiosity Rover and it's ChemCam, which is a laser gun that delivers a million watts of power in five one-billionth of a second bursts. It's pew pew for realz. (Ed: Apparently NASA did color the beam because it's really hard to photograph one frame from a billionth of a second window, and then because the laser's invisible... but still, holy amaz-shitballs.)
On the other hand, they say this thing is for science, but look at the facts - the government has built at least one semi-autonomous drone with a laser cannon on it already. The Matrix is going to be seen as a historical documentary pretty damn soon.
2. Freak totally unavoidable laser gun injury? Become a terminator style cyborg, bitches!
That's right, fuck those lifeless plastic arm replacements, now we have real life terminator technology that like, conveys sense of touch and shit. WHOAH. So, I guess the moral of the story is that the person sitting right next to you might, in fact, actually be a Terminator armed with a laser cannon. Oh shit, better escape with your...
1. We. Have. FLYING. CARS. HOLY SHIT
That bad mamma-jamma is street legal. It's a "transitional airplane" which means you gotta have both a drivers' licence and a piloting license, but you can cruise around the highway all fly and dope, (GET IT? FLY!?), and then when traffic gets too bad you just hit a button to extend the wings, make sure you have one mile of clear runway, get permission to taxi from the nearest FAA flight tower, run through your checklist, get permission for take off, double check your checklist, and then whoosh you're flyin' man. Plus it's only like a couple hundi-thou, which you'd basically be spending on a plane anyway. Worth it! Besides, in the air you'll finally be safe. Nobody's invented flying undetectable death robots yet, so take advantage of it while you can.
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